web server

I am planning on making an ubuntu based server out of an old windws 2000.  Advice?  How would I set up domain names on it?

I was planning on putting Perl and Html files on the server if that matters in any way.

>>1
an ubuntu based server out of an old windws 2000
A what? Could you rephrase that?

Well, I want to take a rather old computer that I dont use and make a web server.  It currently runs windows 2000.  I am going to put Ubuntu Server edition on it and make a server.

Why don't you just say "I'm going to run an Ubuntu-based server?"

just learn about/google DNS, bind, and basic stuff in general. few or no people will try helping. guaranteed.

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I want to take a rather old computer that I dont use and make a web server
I am going to put Ubuntu Server edition on it and make a server

Then in that case, you'll have to see if the machine in question can actually run Ubuntu Server Edition. Maybe if there's a LiveCD version you can try that and see if it works. You may have to run an older version of another distro depending on how old the machine in question actually is. Some details on its specs would probably help.

^ is right, if not you may need to choose a different distro. Although windows 2000 and Ubuntu have similar minimum specs.

NetBSD is a good option if it is a really old computer. The learning curve is steeper for BSD if you're coming from windows. Stick with Ubuntu or Linux in general if your a noob; mainly because answers to any of your questions are a search away.

If you have a domain (you have to buy one from a registrar like go daddy or so similar) you need to point the domain to your IP address, it helps if you have a static IP. Alternatively you can use something like no-ip.com which points to an updated dynamic IP address; they support Linux. Through them you can register a real domain ($15 as of this post) or use one of their free sub-domains.

4chan isn't the best place to ask linux questions if you ask me, head over to Ubuntu's own support forums.

Yea.  It looks like the computer can run ubuntu, but when i cant get the installer disc to run.  it sounds like a stupid problem, but it wont work.  Ive changed the boot order, but it has no effect.  The computer is a dell t450.

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Dell Dimension XPS T450 Desktop (450-MHz Pentium III, 64 MB RAM, 6.4 GB hard drive)
I'm assuming those are the specs (a quick Google search brought me to a page on Amazon's Web site with those specs). Pretty old machine. I've got an IMB Aptiva from around that era, it's a 350 MHZ AMD K-6 2, same amount of RAM. Purchased back in April 1998 or so.

But anyway, since you said that you cannot get the installer disc to run and you've changed the boot order (I'm assuming you did this through the BIOS), it could be a corrupted disc or something along those lines. Have you burned the disc yourself? Or is this an official CD from Ubuntu? It could be a DVD data format disc, and you're trying to have the installer disc run from a drive that can only read CD format.

If you know for certain that it's the right format and everything, it could be corrupted. If you burned it yourself, sometimes when you burn a disc at too fast a speed, you run into problems. Try burning a new one at half the speed this time (for instance, you burned the CD at 48x, try 24x this time, or even 16x).

Try those things and if you're still having problems, report back here. Also, when doing so, try to be as detailed as possible in your postings. Thanks, and good luck.

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^* IBM

I always screw typing that up for some reason.

ohhh.  i think i used the wrong format.  i will also try slowing it down.  thanks.

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Yes. A computer around that era probably has a drive that can only read CDs, if you burned Ubuntu on a DVD format disc, it obviously won't work. Let us know how things go.

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